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This qualitative study explored the perceptions of newly graduated RNs about how their educational experiences as prelicensure students prepared them to enter the nursing workforce. Interviews with 10 RNs revealed that nursing programs did not adequately prepare them for their multifaceted roles and responsibilities. Nursing faculty should implement practice-oriented educational experiences to facilitate students to assume professional roles and responsibilities when they enter the nursing workforce. The authors describe their study in this video (be sure to read the full article).

This qualitative study explored the perceptions of newly graduated RNs about how their educational experiences as prelicensure students prepared them to enter the nursing workforce. Interviews with 10 RNs revealed that nursing programs did not adequately prepare them for their multifaceted roles and responsibilities. Nursing faculty should implement practice-oriented educational experiences to facilitate students to assume professional roles and responsibilities when they enter the nursing workforce. The authors describe their study in this video (be sure to read the full article).

The college years are a time of transition in which students experiment with behaviors including use of alcohol. Using a nursing student-faculty collaborative model, students evaluate a mass media campaign with social norming messages and education to influence the drinking culture on a college campus. Students observed the mass media messages, with 81.9% viewing posters. A significant decrease in binge drinking was reported. The mass media campaign, led by nursing students and faculty, was effective at influencing the drinking culture on a college campus.

When preparing for exams and ultimately for the NCLEX-RN, students often approach their faculty for practice questions. Although incorporating questions into a lecture may be an effective teaching strategy, usually the number of questions is limited because, once they are used in class, they are no longer valid for an examination. In this course, students developed their own questions related to content that had been covered in class in exchange for 1 bonus mark on their most recent quiz. Learn more about this in the video and read the author’s Teaching Tips.

Nurses are uniquely positioned to be bedside innovators to improve patient care delivery. A faculty team from nursing and chemical engineering developed a course that brought together students from each discipline for a cross-disciplinary, team-based clinical immersion. During each clinical immersion, the student teams rotated through various hospital units where they identified problems and worked together in the university's makerspace (iMaker Space) to design and build prototypes to improve health outcomes. Read the article and then watch the video to learn more about this innovative clinical course.

Animal-assisted activities (AAAs) show promise in providing emotional and social benefits to older adults and may be used as a tool to promote therapeutic communication between students and cognitively impaired older adults. Nursing students participated in a program incorporating AAAs to enhance social engagement of cognitively impaired older adults in a community respite program and enhance their comfort when caring for this population. Learn more about this innovative community health clinical experience in the video and by reading the article.

New graduate nurses are expected to be practice-ready upon graduation. However, transitioning from the role of student to one of leadership in the professional nurse's role is a complex experience. Learn about the Mock Hospital, a comprehensive capstone simulation that immerses senior nursing students into the leadership role of the professional nurse. This is a must-watch video and be sure to read the article.

The flipped classroom is an approach to teaching with independent and asynchronous study of content by students and active learning during scheduled class times. This systematic review examined research on flipped classrooms in health professions education. The majority of the studies in the review noted a significant improvement in at least 1 student academic outcome using the flipped classroom compared with traditional lecture. The review did not reveal compelling evidence for the effectiveness of this method above that of traditional classroom approaches.

Through the Veterans Affairs Nursing Academic Partnership (VANAP), nursing students and faculty participated in practice innovations in a Veterans Affairs Health Care System. Students were placed in both inpatient and outpatient settings. Through activities such as postconferences and population-based projects, they joined forces with Veterans Affairs staff on issues that affected veterans' health care. Student placements in settings across the care continuum improved communication between the settings. The enhanced partnership between the 2 organizations addressed a relevant, meaningful patient care issue.

Pedagogical practices for writing development in doctoral programs are often the by-product of completing dissertation research. Students would benefit from deliberate strategies to assist them in developing their writing skills. In this video and article, the authors share their framework for doctoral education to assist students with mastery of threshold concepts in writing. Threshold concepts in writing are examined for their applicability to the evolution of writing in PhD nursing students as they begin to think and write like nurse scientists.

Dr Hannans developed an innovative approach to clinical post conferences, offering them online using VoiceThread after the clinical practicum. This innovation provides time for student reflection, while retaining the value of facial cues, tone, and peer-peer connections occurring during traditional face-to-face conference. Make time to watch this video and read the article.

The lived experience of licensed practical nurses (LPNs) pursuing Bachelor of Nursing (BN) degrees is not commonly studied in Canada. The goal of this study was to understand the transition experience of LPNs who bridged into a BN program. The authors found 5 themes: seeking advancement; stepping back into the student role; juggling work, school, and family; struggling to be understood; and seeing things differently. LPN-to-BN students would benefit from a stand-alone bridge course to situate them within the BN program. Learn more about this study in the video and article.

Many nursing programs have adopted or are transitioning to a concept-based curriculum (CBC). The authors conducted a national study to develop a list of concepts and exemplars for a CBC. They share their findings and present a leveled approach to positioning exemplars within the curriculum. The authors discuss the findings in this video. Their article is Open Access so read and share with your faculty and colleagues.

Nursing students’ exposure to stress negatively affects both academic and clinical performance. The authors describe their study of the effects of a 10-week cognitive behavioral therapy–based stress management program. There were positive effects of the training program compared with a control group. Students’ perceived stress management competency, self-efficacy, and self-esteem were higher 1 year after the intervention. Don’t miss seeing this video and reading the article.

There has been limited evaluation of preceptorship with nurse practitioner (NP) students. The authors conducted a study to learn about the preceptorship experience from the perspective of NP students. Watch this video and read the article to learn about this study and how you can improve the preceptorship experiences for NP students.

This is the first video in our writing for publication series. The purpose of the manuscript and intended readers guide your selection of a journal for submission. Learn about directories of nursing and other journals and sending a query email.

This is the 2nd video in our writing for publication series. Learn about the journal’s Information for Authors and why important, formats for writing different types of manuscripts (research reports, reviews, quality improvement, and educational topics), and reporting guidelines. References and tables/figures also are discussed.

This is the final video in our writing for publication series. In this video you will get some additional tips on writing your manuscript and will learn about peer review and responding to reviewers’ comments. Other topics include authorship criteria, copyright, open access, and avoiding “predatory journals.”

Pharmacology is often a challenging course for nursing students. Nurse educators may find study guide posters as a valuable activity to help students learn about medications and as a teaching method that is easy to implement. Students develop posters to display sample medication names, indications for use, mechanism of action, side effects, and patient teaching points/nursing considerations. They include at least 1 poem, 1 acronym, and 1 drawing to convey the drug information. Learn more about this teaching strategy by watching the video and reading the teaching tip.

The use of the multiple patient simulation (MPS) has grown in nursing education as a strategy to help close the education-practice gap and better prepare students for the reality of hospital practice. Watch this video to learn how the faculty implemented a MPS experience for students. Also read the article where they explain the design/timing, type and number of patient cases, scheduling, faculty resources, and setting. This MPS experience was originally developed for a group of 125 nursing students but can be modified for larger or smaller groups, and can be used with new graduate orientation to the work setting.

This qualitative study explored the perceptions of newly graduated RNs about how their educational experiences as prelicensure students prepared them to enter the nursing workforce. Interviews with 10 RNs revealed that nursing programs did not adequately prepare them for their multifaceted roles and responsibilities. Nursing faculty should implement practice-oriented educational experiences to facilitate students to assume professional roles and responsibilities when they enter the nursing workforce. The authors describe their study in this video (be sure to read the full article).

The college years are a time of transition in which students experiment with behaviors including use of alcohol. Using a nursing student-faculty collaborative model, students evaluate a mass media campaign with social norming messages and education to influence the drinking culture on a college campus. Students observed the mass media messages, with 81.9% viewing posters. A significant decrease in binge drinking was reported. The mass media campaign, led by nursing students and faculty, was effective at influencing the drinking culture on a college campus.

When preparing for exams and ultimately for the NCLEX-RN, students often approach their faculty for practice questions. Although incorporating questions into a lecture may be an effective teaching strategy, usually the number of questions is limited because, once they are used in class, they are no longer valid for an examination. In this course, students developed their own questions related to content that had been covered in class in exchange for 1 bonus mark on their most recent quiz. Learn more about this in the video and read the author’s Teaching Tips.

Nurses are uniquely positioned to be bedside innovators to improve patient care delivery. A faculty team from nursing and chemical engineering developed a course that brought together students from each discipline for a cross-disciplinary, team-based clinical immersion. During each clinical immersion, the student teams rotated through various hospital units where they identified problems and worked together in the university's makerspace (iMaker Space) to design and build prototypes to improve health outcomes. Read the article and then watch the video to learn more about this innovative clinical course.

Animal-assisted activities (AAAs) show promise in providing emotional and social benefits to older adults and may be used as a tool to promote therapeutic communication between students and cognitively impaired older adults. Nursing students participated in a program incorporating AAAs to enhance social engagement of cognitively impaired older adults in a community respite program and enhance their comfort when caring for this population. Learn more about this innovative community health clinical experience in the video and by reading the article.

New graduate nurses are expected to be practice-ready upon graduation. However, transitioning from the role of student to one of leadership in the professional nurse's role is a complex experience. Learn about the Mock Hospital, a comprehensive capstone simulation that immerses senior nursing students into the leadership role of the professional nurse. This is a must-watch video and be sure to read the article.

The flipped classroom is an approach to teaching with independent and asynchronous study of content by students and active learning during scheduled class times. This systematic review examined research on flipped classrooms in health professions education. The majority of the studies in the review noted a significant improvement in at least 1 student academic outcome using the flipped classroom compared with traditional lecture. The review did not reveal compelling evidence for the effectiveness of this method above that of traditional classroom approaches.

Through the Veterans Affairs Nursing Academic Partnership (VANAP), nursing students and faculty participated in practice innovations in a Veterans Affairs Health Care System. Students were placed in both inpatient and outpatient settings. Through activities such as postconferences and population-based projects, they joined forces with Veterans Affairs staff on issues that affected veterans' health care. Student placements in settings across the care continuum improved communication between the settings. The enhanced partnership between the 2 organizations addressed a relevant, meaningful patient care issue.

Pedagogical practices for writing development in doctoral programs are often the by-product of completing dissertation research. Students would benefit from deliberate strategies to assist them in developing their writing skills. In this video and article, the authors share their framework for doctoral education to assist students with mastery of threshold concepts in writing. Threshold concepts in writing are examined for their applicability to the evolution of writing in PhD nursing students as they begin to think and write like nurse scientists.

Dr Hannans developed an innovative approach to clinical post conferences, offering them online using VoiceThread after the clinical practicum. This innovation provides time for student reflection, while retaining the value of facial cues, tone, and peer-peer connections occurring during traditional face-to-face conference. Make time to watch this video and read the article.

The lived experience of licensed practical nurses (LPNs) pursuing Bachelor of Nursing (BN) degrees is not commonly studied in Canada. The goal of this study was to understand the transition experience of LPNs who bridged into a BN program. The authors found 5 themes: seeking advancement; stepping back into the student role; juggling work, school, and family; struggling to be understood; and seeing things differently. LPN-to-BN students would benefit from a stand-alone bridge course to situate them within the BN program. Learn more about this study in the video and article.

Many nursing programs have adopted or are transitioning to a concept-based curriculum (CBC). The authors conducted a national study to develop a list of concepts and exemplars for a CBC. They share their findings and present a leveled approach to positioning exemplars within the curriculum. The authors discuss the findings in this video. Their article is Open Access so read and share with your faculty and colleagues.

This is the first video in our writing for publication series. The purpose of the manuscript and intended readers guide your selection of a journal for submission. Learn about directories of nursing and other journals and sending a query email.

This is the 2nd video in our writing for publication series. Learn about the journal’s Information for Authors and why important, formats for writing different types of manuscripts (research reports, reviews, quality improvement, and educational topics), and reporting guidelines. References and tables/figures also are discussed.

This is the final video in our writing for publication series. In this video you will get some additional tips on writing your manuscript and will learn about peer review and responding to reviewers’ comments. Other topics include authorship criteria, copyright, open access, and avoiding “predatory journals.”

Funding for nursing education research is scarce. One alternate means of funding is through crowdfunding. Crowdfunding is a general term for obtaining monetary donations from many people for a variety of reasons. In this video learn how these nurse educators engaged in a successful, donation-based crowdfunding project to fund their nursing education study.

The operating room (OR) is a unique practice environment for nurses; however, many nursing programs no longer include OR nursing in the curriculum. This is unfortunate because ORs in the U.S. are experiencing shortages of nurses. Watch this video to learn how this school provided learning experiences in the OR for students through an academic-practice partnership. In the article Dr Plank also discusses varies types of OR experiences for students that schools might consider.

Peer teaching provides students with opportunities to experience the educator role and increase their self-confidence and problem-solving skills. To address the shortage of meaningful leadership experiences for senior nursing students, faculty implemented an alternative leadership experience involving senior students taking on the role of peer teachers in the simulation laboratory. Learn more about this innovative peer teaching strategy: watch the video and then read the full article.

Patients facing serious, life-limiting illnesses and their families benefit from receiving palliative care. Prelicensure nursing students can be educated to provide this primary care to patients. Dr. Mazanec describes the development and implementation of the ELNEC (End-of-Life Nursing Education Consortium) curriculum, an innovative online curriculum that prepares students with essential primary palliative nursing knowledge and skills. After watching this video, be sure to read the article, which provides resources you can use in your own nursing program.

Assessing clinical judgment for safe nursing practice is a challenge. The author used the Lasater Clinical Judgment Rubric (LCJR) to evaluate clinical judgment of junior and senior nursing students in the clinical setting. Juniors demonstrated an accomplished level on the total scale and all 4 subscales, whereas seniors had exemplary clinical judgment on the total scale and 3 of 4 subscales. Learn more about this study from the author’s video and article.

Prelicensure nursing curricula need to be redesigned to integrate and achieve key population health competencies. Nursing students in generic and second-degree programs had improved learning outcomes and significant increases in population health competencies across the curriculum using simulation-based learning activities developed through an academic-practice partnership. Learn more about how this school of nursing integrated population health: watch the video and read the article.

Recognizing the value that introverts bring to a nursing program is essential. In this video and article, Dr Colley emphasizes the importance of nurse educators preparing all students for leadership roles in the profession and to do so in a way that is equitable. We need a balanced cadre of effective leaders from across the temperament continuum who can address the complex challenges facing nursing and health care in general. Nurse educators are integral to preparation of resilient and diverse leaders in nursing.

Many programs have implemented end-of-program predictive testing to identify students at risk of NCLEX-RN failure. Unfortunately, for many students, end-of-program testing comes too late. The authors studied the relationships between 9 content area assessments and an end-of-program assessment shown to be predictive of NCLEX-RN success. Results indicate that scores on assessments for content areas such as medical surgical nursing and care of children are predictive of end-of-program test scores, suggesting that instructors should provide remediation at the first sign of lagging performance.

Increasing the number of BSN-prepared nurses at the bedside is directly linked to improved health care outcomes. However, employers are challenged to find enough BSN graduates to meet workforce demands. In this video (and article), Dr. Hawkins presents an educational model to increase enrollment, retention, and graduation rates of RN students in a BSN program (RN-BSN) in a resource limited rural community. This exemplar may equip nurse educators with strategies to adopt in their own communities.

In the authors’ prelicensure nursing program, junior students enrolled in the first adult health course were recruited to be standardized patients (SPs) and peer teachers for the first-semester junior students in health assessment. The students who were SPs were able to count the experience as clinical practice hours. The simulated experiences were implemented in examination rooms that resembled a realistic clinical environment. Students obtained a history and performed a focused physical assessment on the SP, who assessed their clinical competence. Learn more about this innovative teaching strategy in this video and the article.

Clinicians need to be prepared to teach nursing students. The author describes her study to determine whether an online program, the Clinical Instructor Program (CIP), improved self efficacy for clinicians in the role of clinical instructor. In addition, understanding of the clinical instructor role, knowledge of instructional content, and understanding of instructional strategies were evaluated before and after CIP participation. A primary finding of the study was that overall self-efficacy significantly improved. Watch the video and also read the article: in the article the author describes the program she developed to prepare clinicians for clinical teaching.

Any error made in health care can cause the health care provider to become a second victim. The role that nursing education can play in preventing nurses from becoming second victims has not been well explored. The authors conducted a study on the perceptions of recent BSN graduates about their preparation for medication administration, medication errors, and their personal experience with error making and second victimhood. Watch this video and read the article on this interesting study with implications for your curriculum.

Researchers who study nursing education often encounter difficulties when trying to recruit and retain nurse educator participants. In this video, Dr. Raymond-Seniuk discusses effective and ineffective sampling strategies and methods to increase the efficiency of the research process. Also read the article, which outlines the struggles and successes encountered with a mixed methods study that examined nurse educators’ critical thinking. The author shares insights and future recommendations for researchers in nursing education. This article is Open Access, so share it with other nurse educators.

Learn about the dedicated education unit (DEU) model of clinical nursing education from these experts. Although nursing programs have used the DEU model for years, the literature provides minimal direction to assist faculty in transitioning from traditional clinical teaching to the DEU model. The authors explain in the video and article how to teach in a DEU. They discuss resources faculty can develop to help all involved understand teaching roles and desired learning outcomes in the DEU model.

Effectively teaching clinical data management and analysis in a doctor of nursing (DNP) program requires attention to developing skills that foster improvement at the bedside. The authors describe their new DNP course on clinical data management and analysis. View the video and then read the article, which also reports opportunities to improve translation and application of the content in the course to the scholarly practice project.

This video and the accompanying article report findings from a study on peer incivility among nursing students and the impact of incivility on students’ physical and mental health and their stress. Students who experienced high levels of peer incivility had lower mental health scores, lower physical health scores, and higher stress levels. Dr. Sauer describes the study in this video and provides more details about it in the article including strategies for nursing faculty.

Drs. Dols, Hoke, and Rauschhuber share their research study on the outcomes of an educational innovation in which students completed online human subjects training followed by a mock institutional review board (IRB) simulation. The study demonstrated that knowledge acquisition is not enough to acquire the ethical reasoning skills needed to implement health care research. Situational context is also needed to envision the application of ethical principles. Learn more about the study in this video and the accompanying article.

Dr. Aebersold describes the development of a new simulation-based course designed to remediate the clinical skills of prelicensure nursing students and the multidimensional method used to evaluate this new course. Evaluation of the course was guided by Kirkpatrick’s levels of training. The Quint Leveled Clinical Competency Tool was used to evaluate students’ clinical competencies. Success of the course was found in 3 levels of evaluation. If you are using simulation in your nursing program, be sure to watch this video and read the article – then share them with your colleagues.

Assessing student learning during a site visit in an advanced practice nursing course is important for academic success; however, a gap in the literature exists on students’ perspectives of faculty site visits in nurse practitioner education. Watch this video to learn about the authors’ study on students’ perceptions of the most useful aspects of the site visit, suggestions for improving site visits, and changes made in the practicum after the site visit.
Then be sure to read the full article.

To prevent online unprofessionalism among nursing students, the authors developed a peer-facilitated social media education session. Dr. Marnocha explains the study in this video. Students’ uncertain or incorrect attitudes and knowledge showed significant improvements after the session conducted by other nursing students. Learn about the full study in the article.

How should simulated and clinical experiences be sequenced? Does it make a difference in student performance? Dr. Hansen compared 2 different sequences of blocks of simulated and clinical practicum learning experiences on students’ clinical competency using a randomized crossover design. Competency was measured 3 times: after each block of simulated and clinical experiences and following a final simulated experience. There were no significant differences in students’ competency. This study provides important evidence for faculty when making decisions about simulation and clinical practice. Watch this video and be sure to read the article.

Simulation-based learning experiences are designed to prepare the student for clinical practice; however, there is little documentation of a relationship between simulation performance and performance in the clinical setting. When essential aspects of a clinical situation are replicated in simulation, students should readily understand and manage similar situations in clinical practice. The authors studied the relationships between development of clinical nursing judgment, simulation performance, and clinical performance. In this video and article, learn what they found.

Interprofessional education (IPE) has gained momentum across health profession schools. Exploring interprofessional experiences in the classroom setting may further enhance collaborative skills while advancing clinical knowledge. In this video and article, the authors describe an innovative approach to IPE to teach chronic care concepts to graduate nursing, physician assistant, and public health students. Enhancing IPE with a team-based learning approach resulted in improved knowledge of chronic care management, student perceptions of mutual respect, and perceived development of communication and teamwork skills.

Learn how this author used a community-based participatory research approach to develop content for a virtual simulation case. The virtual simulation case was designed to develop the cultural competence of prelicensure nursing students in caring for a Puerto Rican patient with diabetes. Watch the video and then read this article to learn how you can use this method with your own simulations.

Integrating simulation in multiple levels of nursing programs remains a challenge for educators. Nurse educators from various degree granting programs were surveyed to identify placement of multiple nursing concepts. The results of the survey identified concepts that could be incorporated, that is, scaffolded, into various levels of nursing education via concept-based simulations. Categorizing concepts into multiple learner levels provides an efficient, systematic approach to incorporating concepts into simulation throughout any nursing curriculum. Learn more about this project by watching the video. Then be sure to read the article.

In this video and article, Dr. Galloway shares how she developed, implemented, and evaluated a simulation exercise designed to teach spiritual care to prelicensure nursing students. Participation in the spiritual care simulation resulted in improved knowledge and attitudes relating to spirituality and spiritual care. The results from her study demonstrated the value of using simulation and spiritual assessment to teach students how to recognize and respond therapeutically to spiritual needs.

Understanding end-of-life care can help nurses overcome barriers to managing chronicity in terminally ill patients. The author describes her study that examined the influence of a palliative care elective course on 74 senior nursing students’ knowledge and attitudes toward providing end-of-life care. The study compared the differences between 2 groups of nursing students: 1 of the groups had end-of-life care instruction based on the principles of the End-of-Life Nursing Education Consortium. Watch this video and read the full article to guide your integration of end-of-life care in the curriculum.

Lateral violence among nurses is a continuing problem in health care, contributing to detrimental individual and organizational consequences. Nurse educators can prepare students to respond effectively to lateral violence before they graduate and enter the workplace, where it is likely to be encountered. Simulation provides an effective platform for delivering this type of student-centered education. The author presents guidelines for educators to integrate lateral violence response training into simulations in prelicensure nursing education. Watch the video and read the article to get details about how to develop a simulation for this purpose.

The authors created a medication calculation simulation for their prelicensure students to provide the opportunity for dosage calculation practice with authentic circumstances, foster an enhanced perspective of the importance of accuracy required for calculating dosages, and improve dosage calculation accuracy itself. For authenticity, they prepared each patient in the simulation to appear as lifelike as possible, having personal possessions at the bedside and therapies such as oxygen, IVs, casts, and wound dressings. Watch this video (and read the article) to learn how to prepare this simulation on medication calculation.

Many nursing educators have considered the implementation of a concept-based curriculum, with active, conceptual teaching and learning strategies. This curriculum model offers a way to respond to the overwhelming content saturation in many nursing programs. However, barriers abound, including faculty concerns about loss of control, changing faculty role and identity, and fear of failure. Learn from these experts how to overcome these barriers and learn about some practical strategies for success in your curriculum change. Watch the video now and read the full article.

In this video the authors discuss how they used integrative learning strategies and complexity theory in designing complex simulations for students. The simulation scenarios were role played by the students, which enabled them to verbalize therapeutic communication skills, practice technical skills, and use their knowledge of physical and mental health symptoms to portray a patient with these comorbidities. The student-led simulation scenarios were evaluated to determine if the participants perceived them to be an effective and important simulation learning experience.

This video and article share best practices for addressing concerns of first-generation and minority students as they begin their nursing program. An interactive, peer-developed, 2-day program was implemented to create a sense of community and relieve students’ anxiety. The program focused on students’ needs and provided engagement, networking, and first-hand experience with resources and methods to reduce cultural dissonance. Participation included critiquing modeling of proper clinical attire, meeting with peer mentors, and locating important campus resources. The program, was conducted by minority students under the supervision and guidance of faculty mentors.

Quality and Safety Education for Nurses (QSEN) has been prominent in nursing education for 10 years. Since its inception, faculty have used the QSEN competencies as a framework for developing teaching strategies and tools, but there are few findings available to support this practice. In this video and article, Dr. Altmiller describes the process of developing a QSEN-based clinical evaluation instrument for a prelicensure nursing program and establishing content validation for its items.

Clinical site visits are important for evaluating graduate nursing students' clinical performance. This study examined the perceptions of preceptors of FNP students about site visits. Preceptors believe faculty should make at least 1 face-to-face site visit to observe a student during the semester. No preference for telephone or mobile technology for conducting site visits was identified. The study provides important considerations when designing guidelines for faculty site visits.

In this video abstract and article, the author describes an innovative, yet low-technology approach, to using edible curriculum aids to engage students in active learning during a lesson related to foundational pharmacological concepts. The specific concept taught through the use of food as a curriculum aid was drug half-life.

In a large online RN to BSN program, faculty embraced the use of electronic portfolios (e-portfolios) for documenting student assignments and learning, overall program evaluation, and student professional development. Watch this video to learn about e-portfolios and how the faculty used them for program evaluation. Make sure you read the article and watch the second video about this article.

Determining when advanced practice registered nurse students are safe and competent for beginning-level practice is challenging. In this video Dr. Benbenek describes the development and testing of a capstone objective structured clinical examination designed to evaluate the practice readiness of students enrolled in the family, adult-gerontology, women's health nurse practitioner, and nurse-midwifery tracks. This is a must-read article.

If you are teaching online, make sure you watch this video and read the full article. This study aimed to determine the level of engagement of registered nurse (RN) to Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN), Master of Science in Nursing (MSN), and Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) nursing students enrolled in online nursing degree programs and to understand whether there are generational differences in level of student engagement. Significant differences were noted for engagement level between generations of students, but no significant difference was noted in the engagement level of students from RN to BSN, MSN, or DNP programs.

The author describes a community partnership that includes a writing-for-publication health promotion activity for RN-BS students enrolled in a population health nursing course. The faculty member for the course contacted the Youth Health Connection (YHC) program coordinator to inquire about the possibility for student-authored article submissions in the YHC e-newsletter. This outreach began a unique educational partnership that affords RN-BS nursing students the opportunity to author health promotion articles and has led to other initiatives between the health system and nursing department.

Are you struggling with how to prepare prelicensure nursing students with the ethical and moral decision-making skills they will need as nurses? This article describes the use of theater as one approach to teaching nursing ethics. Students perform as actors, directors, and discussion leaders in a series of simulated ethical scenarios designed to encourage individual accountability and responsibility for action.

Communication skills are essential to providing quality care to patients and families and interacting with nurses and other health care professionals. Nurse educators are responsible for preparing students to appropriately engage in the communication process. The authors describe a simple approach for teaching nursing students the
basics (ABCDs) of a professional introduction. You can use these guidelines in a simulation or
clinical setting. Watch the video and learn more about the ABCDs of professional introductions by reading the article.

Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) students need to be effective health policy leaders and contribute their expertise to legislative discussions. As faculty, we need to prepare students with these competencies. Dr. Crowder describes a state legislative fellowship based on Kolb’s experiential learning theory. Watch this video and read the article to learn how to develop legislative experiential learning opportunities for your students.

Empathy is at the heart of all nurse-patient interactions. Yet empathy often declines during the student’s nursing program. Julia Ward reports on her mixed-methods study to assess whether an educational intervention using standardized actors could prevent the decline of students’ empathy. Watch this video and be sure to read the full article: her educational intervention holds much potential for improving empathy in nursing students.

Watch this video and read the article to learn how the faculty integrated a college bystander intervention service-learning project into an entry-level community clinical course. Two years of data showed that students helped improve campus safety. They also developed as professionals. Approximately one-third of the students described a specific incident in which they intervened in the situation.

Dr. Altmiller explains the importance of feedback in student learning. She shares best practices and strategies for giving constructive feedback to students. Whether you are a novice or an experienced teacher, you will learn from this video and her article.

The challenge to educate increasing numbers of nursing students at all levels in both online and in-class environments calls for innovative instructional strategies that may include technology-based assignments. These authors describe a case study assignment developed for a graduate-level pathophysiology course that required students to create digitally enhanced patient stories. Nursing students enrolled in the online and in-class sections of the course worked together using commonly available learning technology tools to create content that bridged pathophysiology concepts and clinical practice.

Learn about reverse engineering and how the faculty used it to introduce RN to BSN students to nursing research and evidence-based practice (EBP). Reverse engineering of a nursing practice guideline offered a method for teaching these students an appreciation of research and supporting nursing practice with best evidence.

Many schools of nursing use adjunct and part time nurse educators to teach clinical courses. Dr. Johnson reports on the outcomes of a faculty development workshop to prepare these educators for evaluating their students in the clinical setting. The instructors valued using a student-oriented learning outline, gained knowledge about assessment, and indicated they would engage in activities to increase their knowledge of assessment. Watch this video and read Dr. Johnson’s article to gain some tips for preparing clinical educators in your nursing program.

Clinical research nursing is distinct from nursing research and includes the coordination and delivery of care for patients enrolled in clinical research trials. Watch this video to learn more about the authors’ innovative elective in clinical research nursing. It was developed collaboratively by stakeholders at a university, research institute, and national organization to provide experiential learning for undergraduate nursing students.

This study compared the drinking patterns of 123 female nursing students with those of 185 female students of other majors enrolled beyond the freshman year at a large public university. High-risk drinking patterns did not vary significantly between the 2 groups, suggesting that students' drinking patterns reflected the norms of their institution. Prevention strategies geared at campus culture and that target students still enrolled in prerequisites may be needed to reduce alcohol abuse in nursing students.

Dr. Lonneman describes 6 teaching strategies for raising nursing students? cultural awareness, a key aspect of cultural competence. In the article he also reports on the effectiveness of an educational intervention he developed using these strategies.

Simulation design should be theory based and its effect on outcomes evaluated. This study applied a model of experiential learning to design a simulation experience, examined how this design affected clinical nursing judgment development, and described the relationship between clinical nursing judgment development and student performance when using the experiential learning design. Findings suggest that using an experiential learning simulation design results in more highly developed nursing judgment and competency in simulation performance.

This study examined nursing students’ beliefs about indicators of deception and their attitudes toward patient deception. Nursing students (n=58) from various nursing programs completed a Detection of Deception Questionnaire and Attitudes Toward Patient Deception Scale. Nursing students have a number of inaccurate beliefs about deception and possess negative attitudes toward patients who lie. Implications for nursing education are discussed by the author.

Nurse educators need new strategies that will engage students in the application of research and evidence-based practice. In this video and article the faculty members describe how they attempted to achieve these goals by forming an extracurricular student-run journal club.

Increasing numbers and severity of disasters across the globe require nurses be prepared to provide leadership in disaster situations. To address this need, the authors developed a combination of didactic and simulation exercises to provide a daylong experience for students, emphasizing application of nursing leadership skills in disasters.

The author discusses the attitudes, influences, and practices of associate degree nursing (ADN) faculty in relation to advising students about nursing education progression. ADN faculty have a sense of moral and personal responsibility to encourage students to continue their education. Lack of faculty knowledge of program details and multiple demands on their time influence their advising practices.

To meet a curricular need to redesign pediatric clinical education and to increase interprofessional education (IPE), we piloted a clinical experience for students at a school of optometry’s pediatric clinic. Consistent with Barr’s IPE practice model, objectives were created for common, complementary, and collaborative competencies for the clinical experience. The common objectives, those areas both nurses and optometrists need to know, were to describe common pediatric vision problems and screening techniques and use developmentally appropriate communication. Examining nursing’s role in vision care was the complementary objective. Finally, the collaborative objective was to develop a common language for discussing vision care.

Over the past decade, Qatar has invested heavily
in both health and educational infrastructure, leading to new education programs for health care providers, including nursing and pharmacy. As these curricula emerge, there is a unique opportunity to develop and incorporate interprofessional health education within this specific cultural context. The authors describe an interprofessional education initiative between the nursing and pharmacy education programs in Qatar.

This study explored self-efficacy and emotional intelligence (EI) as predictors for successful clinical performance in nursing students. Students (n = 56) from 5 associate degree in nursing schools in 2 Northeastern states participated in the study. There were significant relationships among EI, self-efficacy, and student-rated clinical competence. The findings from this study support the importance of fostering clinical self-efficacy and building EI abilities in nursing students.

Teaching large numbers of students can be a challenge for both teachers and students. This article presents the impact of using Gagne's 9 events of instruction on student learning and course evaluations over a 3-semester period. Student evaluations indicated enhanced teacher mastery, effectiveness, and enthusiasm.

This study investigated the posting of unprofessional content online among nursing students. Surveys of 293 schools of nursing revealed that 77% had encountered at least 1 incident of students posting such content. The greatest concerns were about content that students posted related to educational and professional affiliations and to patient confidentiality.

Using high-fidelity simulations to facilitate student learning is an uncommon practice in Turkish nursing programs. The aim of this study was to understand students’ perceptions of the use of simulation in nursing. This study revealed that high-fidelity simulation is an ideal method of promoting learning by helping students transfer theory into practice, build confidence and teamwork, and raise professional awareness.

In their study in the September/October 2014 issue of Nurse Educator, Meghan L. Bell and Janet R. Beulow describe how a patient advocacy service-learning course increased nursing students’ awareness and proficiency in working with the challenges faced by low-income, vulnerable individuals as they attempt to improve their lives and health.

Students (N = 134) created a 5-minute narrated digital story using VoiceThread technology. Through the writing and sharing of digital stories, they embraced the personal and complex nature of palliative care.

An important outcome of nursing education is the acquisition of an identity consistent with the profession’s core knowledge, skills, values, and attitudes. Hensel and Laux conducted a longitudinal study to describe factors associated with the acquisition of a professional identity over the course of prelicensure education. Learn more about this important study in the September/October 2014 issue of Nurse Educator (39:5).